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Congress calls for more details on federal telework in 2024 spending package

Congressional appropriators lay out six new agency reporting requirements on federal telework and return-to-office in the 2024 government spending agreement.

Budget

White House presses agencies to use apprenticeships for skills-based hiring

Workforce

6-bill minibus rewards some agencies, while slashing budgets for others

Budget

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AFGE rallies for 7.4% federal employee pay raise, spending deal to avoid government shutdown

Pay

Proposal to reform pay for blue-collar feds gets committee approval, but concerns remain

Pay

VA signs new labor agreement with AFGE, its first update in more than a decade

Workforce

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VA, AFGE reach ‘historic’ settlement to reinstate, compensate thousands of wrongfully fired feds

Veterans Affairs

Hundreds of employees rally behind 8.7% proposed federal pay raise

Unions

Union leaders, lawmakers call for expanded pay, benefits for federal workforce

Congress

Initial plans to cap pay raise for hundreds of NSF employees gain major union pushback

Pay

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP)

Democrats reintroduce bill to give feds 8.7% average pay raise next year

Pay

Why a continuing resolution is ‘not enough’ to resolve staff issues at SSA

The Social Security Administration wants to hire 4,000 new employees and drastically reduce processing times during 2023, but agency officials say they…

Budget

AFGE heightens calls for major SSA workforce improvements at union rally

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Unions

Federal judge finalizes $63M settlement for OPM data breach victims

Workforce

Victims of one of the largest data breaches to ever hit the federal government are one step closer to a payout, more than seven years later.